Fifty_YTen (LyX inside obviously text) occurs as document processor following the "what you see is what you mean" paradigm (WYSIWYM), as opposed to the WYSIWYG ideas used by word processors. This means that a user just has to care all about a structure & content of a text, when the data format is handle L^AT_EX, an advanced typesetting system. LyX is designed for authors world health organization desire office output by having the minimum of effort & forgoing becoming specialists within typesetting. the job of typesetting is done mostly per computer, as punishment the predefined placed of system known as a style, & does'nt per creator. Specific cognition of the L^TheT_E10 document processing patterns is non necessary however might improve redaction sustaining LyX significantly for specialist purposes.

Although LyX is popular among technical indicator authors & man of science, for its advanced mathematical modes, these are more & more too been utilized by social scientists & others for its first-class Bibtex integration and document managing features. It might cover documents ranging from either books, notes, theses to articles around refereed journals. Recent versions of the software package trend lines correct-to-left languages prefer Hebrew and Arabic. The separate release for Chinese, Japanese and Korean language support is also available.

A LyX document processor is available for various operating systems rather many Unix platforms including Mac OS X, OS/2, Windows/Cygwin and Linux. The Windows port that does not require Cygwin/X has recently been released. LyX is an open source package that may be redistribute and/or modify it under a terms of the GNU General Public License as published per Free Software Foundation.

Features
GUI with menus Automatically-numbered headings, titles, & paragraphs, sustaining table of contents Text is placed-out based on data from standard typographical system, including indents, spacing, & hyphenation Standard operations such as cut/paste, spell-checking Notes Textclasses & guide similar to the \documentclass[arguments]command within L^TheT_EX BIBT_EX Support Table Editor (WYSIWYG) Math Editor (WYSIWYG) Ability to import various most common text formats Ability to export a document to DocBook SGML, thus opening a way to document processing sustaining SGML information, prefer Jade, Openjade, pdfTeX and pdfJadeTeX, that make it conceivable to green goods systematically formatted documents within HTML, PDF, PostScript, RTF, TXT and other formats from either a only LyX source (single-source publishing), see [http://www.karakas-online.de/mySGML/ Document processing with LyX and SGML]

History
Matthias Ettrich started developing the shareware program known as Lyrix within 1995. Soin fallowing, it was announced on USENET where it received a great deal of attention in a period of the subsequent years. Shortly when the initial release, Lyrix was renamed to Lyx due to the title-clash sustaining commercial computer software (a word processing system by Santa Cruz Operation). It was freed under a GNU General Public License, which opened the plan to the open-source community. A title LyX was chosen because of the file-suffix '.lyx' for the Lyrix-files. Version I.Cypher.Zero of the software system was freed around 1999. Current version I.Terzetto.Sestet was freed in July 16, 2005.

Support and development
LyX has an active development community & the thriving mailing names for user support and discussions.